Lumia and BB10

Interesting to compare the replacement of the legacy platforms with the 'future saviour' platforms at RIM and Nokia. Neither is going terribly well.

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Of course, the underlying problem is that though both platforms are perfectly OK (though with their flaws), they're radically sub-scale. iOS now has about 400m active devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, though obviously with overlapping users) and Android over 800m, plus China. Lumia and BB10 combined have sold a little over 23m units in the last 18 months.  As a developer, why would you target these?

It's also interesting to ponder what would have happened if both companies had swallowed their pride and gone with Android, or even forked Android. I don't actually think Blackberry would be in a better position, but Nokia might have been. 

Benedict Evans